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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Book Recommendation: The Eye of Minds by James Dashner

I just finished
reading this book last night, having read mostly the entire thing in one day. I
had bought the book months (maybe a year) ago and I only had the chance to get
a few chapters into it before I got busy with school and other things.

One of the reasons it
took me so long to finish was because I didn’t think it was that good to start
off with. The book starts off slow and not very interesting to it took me a while
to actually get into reading it. After I had bought the book, one Youtuber I
follow named Joey Graceffa said in a video that he had just finished reading
the book and that it underwhelmed him and he didn’t enjoy it very much. This is
another reason why I stopped reading the book.

However with all that
said and done, once I got to a certain point, I could not put the book down.
This was probably about one hundred to one hundred and fifty pages in, which is
a good portion of the book considering it’s only three hundred pages long.
However, the last portion of the book really hooked me in with all of the
action and plot twists and it really made me appreciate the book more than I
did before.

What I really loved
about this book was the ending. I had a couple of guesses about what was going
to happen and I was very close, but I didn’t guess it exactly. I don’t want to
give away the ending on here for anyone who wants to read the book, but I will
tell you that if you are going to read it, stick around to the end because the
ending makes the book worth it. I love the point the book ends on and I
would’ve been perfectly happy if it ended there, however knowing that a sequel
is coming out fairly soon, I am excited to read it to see what happens next.

To summarize the
story, a boy named Michael loves to spend his time inside something called The
Sleep, a virtual reality world that feels as real as real life, only you don’t
die. His two friends Sarah and Bryson and himself are excellent hackers and use
their skills often to manipulate the game to benefit themselves. One day
Michael witnesses a girl ripping out her programming from the game and jumping
off a bridge, killing herself not only in the game, but in real life as well.
He then finds out that a notorious hacker named Kaine is responsible for her
death and is holding other people hostage within the game, causing devastating
effects to them in their real lives. Michael, Bryson, and Sarah are then asked
by the VNS, a sort of virtual police to find Kaine’s base of operations so the
VNS can stop whatever he has planned. However, on The Path to find Kaine, the
three friends face many challenges and Michael find out something about himself
he never knew before.

I would very loosely
compare this book to the anime Sword Art Online. The premises of the two are
very different, and SAO is heavily based on a romance while The Eye of Minds
honestly has not romance in it at all. However I compare the two just because
of the fact that they both are set in virtual reality worlds where and evil
figure tries to trap people inside.

I would overall give
this book a four out of five rating, just because it took me so long to
actually get into the plot.